disadvantages
Meaning of disadvantages
plural noun
- an unfavourable circumstance or condition that reduces the chances of success or effectiveness.
a major disadvantage is the limited nature of the data
situations of serious social and economic disadvantage
- put in an unfavourable position in relation to someone or something else.
the pension scheme tends to disadvantage women
late Middle English: from Old French desavantage, from des- (expressing reversal) + avantage ‘advantage’.
Information about disadvantages
- The singular form of disadvantages is: disadvantage.
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Hyphenation of disadvantages
dis-ad-van-tages
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- disadvantages is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
disadvantages synonyms
Meaning a feature that renders something less acceptable; a disadvantage or problem:
Meaning an unexpected or hidden obstacle or drawback:
Meaning the negative aspect of something otherwise regarded as good or desirable:
Meaning a hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation:
Meaning a hidden or unsuspected danger or difficulty:
Meaning the state or condition of being weak:
Meaning a mark, blemish, or other imperfection which mars a substance or object:
Meaning a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack:
Meaning an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character:
Meaning a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult:
Meaning a condition of limited ability; a defect or failing:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning a thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:
Meaning a circumstance that complicates something; a difficulty:
Meaning a person or thing whose presence or behaviour is likely to put one at a disadvantage:
Meaning a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance:
Meaning a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone:
Meaning a thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress:
Meaning a hindrance or obstruction in doing something:
Meaning a disadvantage or loss resulting from something:
Meaning short for minus sign:
Meaning an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs, with a sudden closure of the glottis and a characteristic gulping sound:
Meaning act unjustly or dishonestly towards:
disadvantages antonyms
Meaning a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favourable or superior position:
Meaning an advantage or profit gained from something:
Words that rhyme with disadvantages
Ages, ages, ambages, cabbages, circumambages, cribbages, cubages, garbages, herbages, tubages, birdcages, bocages, boscages, brocages, cages, carucages, discages, encages, incages, ribcages, socages, soccages, uncages, adages, appendages, bandages, bavardages, blindages, bondages, brigandages, cloudages, contrabandages, cordages, faldages, fardages, frondages, garlandages, groundages, guardages, guidages, headages, hidages, husbandages, impoundages, marivaudages, pondages, poundages, scaffoldages, sondages, unbandages
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